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| UpdatedThe discovery of an enormous reservoir of ultra-cold gas, 100 billion times the mass of our Sun, in a distant galaxy reshapes our scientific understanding of how stars and galaxies formed in the early universe.
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An ultra-bright cosmic flash of radio waves from a galaxy far, far away gives scientists an unprecedented view of what lies between galaxies in the Universe.
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This month, you can find the Tarantula Nebular in a neighbouring galaxy, spot a meteor, and watch Venus, Saturn and Mars put on a show in the western sky.
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An international team of astronomers crack the case of a mysterious galaxy that has suddenly dimmed after shining brightly for 30 years.
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| UpdatedAn enormous X-shaped structure made of stars lies at the centre of the Milky Way, a new NASA study of infrared light coming from our home galaxy indicates.
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| UpdatedThree colliding spiral galaxies 1.8 billion light years from Earth have produced a monster black hole weighing in at 3 billion times the mass of the Sun.
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| UpdatedTiny ripples in the fabric of space-time known as gravitational waves are directly observed for the first time, an international team of scientists announces.
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Hundreds of galaxies hidden from view behind the Milky Way are unveiled in unprecedented detail for the first time by astronomers using Australia's Parkes Radio Telescope.
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Massive spheres of stars called globular star clusters may produce new generations of stars by drawing-in fresh supplies of gas from their surrounding galaxy, according to a new study.
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| UpdatedThe universe is really big and trying to understand it will make even the biggest brains hurt. Astronomer Amanda Bauer takes us through her top five mind-expanding things we know (or don't know) about the universe.
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| UpdatedMysterious lumps in gas clouds connecting stars in the Milky Way could comprise a significant amount of the galaxy's missing matter, according to Australian scientists.
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| UpdatedAstronomers detect the most powerful stellar explosion ever seen — a massive supernova, twice as powerful as anything previously recorded.
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| UpdatedScientists create a map that charts the ages of stars across the Milky Way, confirming that our galaxy grew from the inside out.
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| UpdatedFor the first time, astronomers witness a star the size of our Sun being completely ripped apart and destroyed by a supermassive black hole.
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New Hubble Space Telescope findings show galaxies were more efficient at making stars when the universe was younger.
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| UpdatedAstronomers discover stars in the Milky Way Galaxy that are almost 13.6 billion years old, and would have formed just a couple of million years after the first stars began to shine.
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This combined X-ray, radio and visible light image of galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 shows the continuing eruption of the most powerful explosion since the big bang.
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| UpdatedSpectacular new Hubble Space Telescope images reveal 250 previously unknown galaxies that formed just 600 million years after the Big Bang.
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The Milky Way has enough star-forming clouds to keep making stars at the present rate for another six billion years, according to a comprehensive new survey using Australia's Mopra radio telescope.
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| UpdatedThe brightest galaxies in the universe were formed by the steady accumulation of gas over a billion years rather than quick galactic collisions, astronomers say.
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| UpdatedIt may look like a close-up of a Vincent van Gogh painting, but this is a portrait of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as seen through the eyes of the European Space Agency's Planck satellite.
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| UpdatedMore than 3,000 amateur astronomers will attempt to break the world record for the most people stargazing in one place tonight, at the Australian National University in Canberra.
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| UpdatedAstronomer Dr Alan Duffy explains how the Rosetta comet mission may have uncovered the building blocks of life.
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| UpdatedPhysicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking starts the biggest search for extraterrestrial life, funded by the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.
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